CreativePro Forum

Return to Member Forum

• Author
  Posts
• • January 12, 2017 at 7:48 am #91201
    M Lopusny

    Member

    Hello,

    maybe I am stupid, but I wasn’t able to find help regarding this. I do not use (or know too much) the GREP feature in InDesign, but now I really need it.
    I found this post – ( https://creativepro.com/topic/make-everything-bold-before-and-included-a-colon-using-grep ), but it did not help me, or I maybe I just don’ know how to apply it.
    Can somebody help me, I am making a multilingual dictionary (5 languages – 5 columns) and need to format the words (phrases) BOLD. I just do not know how to do it (apart from using the character style keyboard shortcut, but that would be a horror to go through it manually).
    Please, can you guys, help.
    Many thanks in advance.

  • January 12, 2017 at 9:03 am #91205
    Robin Van Kuijk

    Member

    Hi
    Your post is titled “Make text before en-space bold”, so I guess that your sentence begins with the word that needs to be bold, followed by an en-space and the explanation. In that case:
    1 Make a text style BOLD, as you would
    2 You need to find ANY LETTER followed by en-space. So go to the GREP-function in your style, and search for [|\u]+~>. Activate the text style.

    Explanation: [|\u] means any letter. Adding the + means 1 or more letters. And end with the symbol for en-space ~>.
    It will apply the text style on every letter ànd the en-space, and wil stop when a regular space is found.

    Also a tip: use a text style that consists only of a magenta coloring (or an other colour that stands out) to try out your grep style. Sometimes there are unexpected effects, which you might not see otherwise.

    Good luck.

  • January 18, 2017 at 7:14 am #91402
    M Lopusny

    Member

    I apologize, for some reason my posts are not recorded.
    Just trying again if it works and to let you know I did not ignore your post and found help.
    m.

  • January 18, 2017 at 7:32 am #91212
    M Lopusny

    Member

    Robin,

    thank you for your promt reply.

    The: [|\u]+~> you posted for some reason does not work on my PC (Win8 + InDesign CS6). It only selects single word before the en-space, despite the + you are mentioning should find also multi-words expressions.

    However, in the post ( https://creativepro.com/topic/make-everything-bold-before-and-included-a-colon-using-grep ) I found help at the end of the conversation.

    The: ^.+?(?=~>) worked right selecting all words before en-space.

    Thank you very much for your effort. Have a nice day.

    m.

  • January 18, 2017 at 7:34 am #91404
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Sorry about the forum post not showing up… it got “stuck.” Visible now.

• Author
  Posts